11-Sep-13 World View -- Pakistan - peace with Taliban

[John]

11-Sep-13 World View -- Pakistan's attempts at peace with Taliban seem doomed to failure

Bird flu and MERS virus show new potential for spreading

** 11-Sep-13 World View -- Pakistan's attempts at peace with Taliban seem doomed to failure
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Contents:
Pakistan's attempts at peace with Taliban seem doomed to failure
Bird flu and MERS virus show new potential for spreading


Keys:
Generational Dynamics, Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif,
Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, TTP, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, LeJ,
H7N9 bird flu, China, Saudi Arabia, Sudan,
Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus, MERS-CoV

[Area51]

I'm skeptical about the claim of a "genocidal" war between Pakistan and India in 1947. Wikipedia says deaths on both sides were around 7500, and wounded = 17,500. That's 1500 killed on India's side, less than US deaths in Afghanistan. So are we wrapping up a "genocidal" war with Afghanistan?
Syria already is past the 100,000 mark, but I recall you writing that there is no possibility of a generational crisis civil war in Syria. Darfur genocide is 178,000-461,000. Rwandan genocide is 500,000-1,000,000.

[Guest]

Any chance that MERS could be man made? You wrote about the existence of such biotechnology several months (or was that years) ago.

[NoOneImportant]

If Sharif wants peace, then peace with the Taliban is easy: simply surrender.

[John]

> I'm skeptical about the claim of a "genocidal" war between
> Pakistan and India in 1947. Wikipedia says deaths on both sides
> were around 7500, and wounded = 17,500. That's 1500 killed on
> India's side, less than US deaths in Afghanistan. So are we
> wrapping up a "genocidal" war with Afghanistan?

> Syria already is past the 100,000 mark, but I recall you writing
> that there is no possibility of a generational crisis civil war in
> Syria. Darfur genocide is 178,000-461,000. Rwandan genocide is
> 500,000-1,000,000.

In generational theory, "genocidal" refers to attitudes and
motivations of masses of people, generations of people, rather than
the number of war deaths. In the last year, "only" a few hundred
Muslims in Burma have been killed by Buddhists, but I call it
"genocidal" because you have hundreds of thousands of Muslims
displaced from their homes that were burned down by thousands of
marauding Buddhists, and you have Buddhists using shovels to bash in
the heads of Muslim children. In the war following Partition and
1947, masses of Hindus and Muslims were slaughtering each other. In
Syria today, you have a lot of people being killed, but the slaughter
is being directed by the al-Assad government, and is not coming from
the people.

[John]

> Any chance that MERS could be man made? You wrote about the
> existence of such biotechnology several months (or was that years)
> ago.

I guess you'd have to say that there's a chance, but there's no
evidence of it that I'm aware of. I believe that if MERS were
man-made, then medical experts would have detected that by now.